In a piece on the Daily Beast/Newsweek, infectious disease expert Kent Sepkowitz reports on a drug being developed by Japanese researchers, designed to support male impulse-control. The big idea: gents can pop a pill that will prevent them from falling for the trickery of beautiful (and money-hungry) women. Astoundingly, the study actually uses the phrase "honey trap." No word on why, of all the base instincts that science could seek to blunt, they chose to tackle this one. Are Japanese men in the midst of a serious crisis of masculinity?

Sepkowitz writes: "The investigators gave minocylcline (an antibiotic that's been around since the early 1970s) or a placebo to 98 young men and then involved them in a simple game.

Each man received 1,300 yen *about $13) and was told that he could give as much or as little of the money as he wanted to someone in the next room.And then the men were shown a photo of the mysterious 'someone; next door, invariably an attractive young woman. Those receiving the placebo, investigators found, gave the money away freely—and the more attractive the woman's face, the more money the men parted with. However, those on the antibiotic held their wallets close and proved every bit as stingy and distrustful as someone looking at an unsexy picture or no picture at all."

We're waiting for the counter formula that gives women laser-like instincts to weed out stingy and distrustful men. Now there's a game-changer.